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whoop.... i whinge, then I run away!
Haven't been feeling real social, having a hard time breastfeeding (although it's settling at last - now I'm chained to the couch for 18 hours a day!) but things are looking up. How is everyone coping so far?
Kuraiza - great to see you in here!
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Breastfeeding is time consuming, isn't it? How did humans survive evolution when us women have to sit around, defenseless and immobile for so many hours each day? I am chasing my inlaws out of the apartment so I can breastfeed and watch TV, or else I'm stuck in the bedroom all day.
Jude was awake last night from 6pm to 11.30pm. What was that all about? I didn't know what I was supposed to do.
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I'll join this forum too.I've found it hard to find time to get online!! I am surprised at how long breast feeding takes. I keep forgetting it takes an hour per feed!! Happily I haven't had any problems with breast feeding.. but my worry is if Maya is getting enough!? I don't know how to tell if my breasts are being drained?! I don't have engorged breasts at all.
kuraiza - My little Maya is also going through long periods of awake crying time.. lasting hours. It started a few days ago. And DH and I are going crazy trying to work out what's wrong or what to do to settle her. She seems to not want to sleep - she gets these big wide eyes. But then I think she gets over tired and can't cope so cries until she can settle down for sleep, which can last for hours. I have no idea what to do either.
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That's how I felt too. I bought a dummy for Jude because he loves to comfort suckle and he sucks his fists, the paediatrician told me in hospital you can always take a dummy away but you can't take away thumbs, so we tried it. It helped to settle him last night (at last).She seems to not want to sleep - she gets these big wide eyes. But then I think she gets over tired and can't cope so cries until she can settle down for sleep, which can last for hours
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My DH wants to try and avoid dummies if possible. So at the moment we are trying to settle her without them. But I do have some ready to use - just in case!
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hi girls!
Yay Kurazia for twinnies ! lol
Bekz thanks for the welcome!
Well i am slowly getting used to the world of a newborn and a 16 month old.
It is hard being so tired in the morning. I tried to put DS in his cot at night in his room but crys so much. So for now we are co sleeping and DH is in the spare room - which works well as he gets sleep, and looks after DD if she wakes and i get the bed to myself!
DS is waking all hours no routine at night yet. Sleeping well during the day lol!
As for dummies... i held off the dummy with DD for 5 weeks and it was a godsend when i finally gave in... the sleep was soooo much better as she didnt need my boob to settle!!
Trying to give DS one in the hope it would happen with im too ... lol but nope! he wont take it!!! rah!
Hollye - if you check back in... eventually i think the threads become babies born october 2008.....
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I didn't want to use dummies either. I was mostly worried it would affect how he attaches, but since attachment isn't an issue and the comfort suckling is, I gave it a try. I feel bad giving him a dummy because I think "what if he wants something else and I'm not giving him what he actually needs" but he would reject the dummy and keep crying if he wanted something else. I swaddle his hands down and I think it frustrates him that he can't suck his fists, so the dummy calms him and he falls asleep within a few minutes. It's made a big difference to settling him.
Also, I just rubbed some avocado oil baby lotion on him after a bath (his skin was peeling on his hands and feet) and I wonder if that helped settle him because after a quick booby topup he was out like a light.
Why doesn't your husband want you to use a dummy? I'm just interested because I think usually it's the woman who objects and the man who can't see anything wrong with it.
Jude sleeps like a champion, so much so that I have to wake him up to feed him so it's easy for me to get sidetracked and forget to wake him (or want to sleep for 4 hours straight after a 2-hour feed), so some days we only get 5 feeds in a 24-hour period and I am a bit worried if he's eating enough. Wouldn't he wake up and cry if he was hungry? Am I being a bad mum? I'll take him for a weigh in 2 days and see if he's gained weight since hospital. I hope so, he's so skinny.DS is waking all hours no routine at night yet. Sleeping well during the day lol!
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